The “Green Light” singer sat down with The Spinoff podcast and cited Ocean as one of her biggest references when she wrote and recorded Melodrama. She said his one-of-a-kind approach to making great music liberated her from certain expectations about how to record pop hits.

“In this sort of post-Blonde landscape, we can all sort of do whatever we want in terms of instrumentation,” she said.

“We could’ve just made it a big, easy single because the bonds are there,” she continued. “…It won’t mean as much to simplify the journey or to force a big chorus. I just want it to feel like how that [‘new love’] feels…the big, sun-soaked dumbness of falling in love.”

Lorde says Ocean’s style was especially influential on “The Louvre,” one of our favorite tracks on the album. How about Lorde/Frank Ocean collaboration in the future? We can only hope.